The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 2

Walter FORMER PRISONER SAYS LABOR GAN RELEASE STRIKER Sends ‘Appeal From Sanatorium A call for a more extensive drive to free John P ¢ of the New Bedford Textile Work- ers’ Union and Organizer of the Young Workers mmunist) League, who was sentenced to two years at hard labor on arge of desertion fol- » strike dene presiden « lowing h and the ( ment, is ma bull. A Idier Trumbull was sentenced to 2 at hard labor ship in tion in the arn released@by mas year bebind the bars. move: Fearn forme The one year spent in r Walter Trumbull was sufi break down his and for more than a year he has been il! with tubercul fis in the William fatorium, Northvi The following article in the sanatorium: At present he Maybury San- gan. vas written By WALTER M. TRUMBULL ‘The Cise"of John Porter is just one more instance in which the army czars prove beyond doubt in whose interest they work. Once More have they fallen in jine with the mill barons and their ilk The struggle to free Porter is more difficult because of his re- latively “short” sentence vf two end a half years than it would have deem if the authorities had gone whead with their original plan to give him a life sentence. The of- ficers of the court-martial hoped to make the sentence stick. 40 and 26-Year Sentences. When the court-martial in Hawaii gave Paul Crouch and me sentences of 49 and 26 years, they also,hoped to make their sentences stick. They made the mistake of allowing their hatred and fear of the working class to cause them to pass sen- tences that shocked the entire coun- try. Their evi savagery caused even hard-boiled capitalist papers to register a protest. The army has learned something from these cases. They are apply- ing their lesson to the case of John Porter. They Know tKat it is much €asier to prevent reduction or com- plete release from what sounds like | 2 relatively short sentence. In this case, they made every effort to hide the class issue in the case, giving the maximum on a technical charge of desertion. Also, it must not be | forgotten that the military authori- ties often try military prisoners by court-martial and give long sen- tences' for something alleged to have been done while in prison, thus preventing their release at the end of the original sentence. Danger of\p@fzer Sentence. It suits the purpose of the mili- tary authorities to Porter a “short” sentence now and then upon some pretext or other court-martial him again for the purpose of keep- ing him in jail. It is a very clever give method, and we must work with greater effort to spoil this plan of the bosses. y Porter has taken a militant stand. There was no cringing on his part hefore the court of officers. He hurled his defiance in their teeth and it was they who showed uneasi- ness. Protests Can Free Porter. There was another lesson learned from the case of Paul Crouch and myself—a lesson for the class-con- scious workers. We learned the power of protest meetings, letters and telegrams of protest to the war department. Were it not for these, both Paul Crouch and I would be in the power of the army czars now! Comrades! John Porter must and will be free! Write and wire pro- tests to the war department! Or- ganize protest meetings and dem- onstrate your inion of this plot to keep an active worker silent. Free John Porter! ELECTION DRIVE ie work of collecting signatures In Section 8, Brownsville, is being carried on not only by the member- of the section and the Young Workers League members, but is being actively aided by non-partisan x organizations, chief among them the United Council of Working- class . Women, the Independent Workmen’s Circle and various Jew- ish workers’ culture clubs which have their headquarters in the'sec-| Some of these organizations | tion. tion have already been assigned definite streets on which to send signature solicitors. os : The signature campaign in Brownsville has revealed that ,in- treasingly large numbers of Negro | workers are showing a keen inter- est in the Workers Party candidates | and platform. The new headquar- | ters of the section at 154 Watkins St. are being regularly visited by a | work at the Radium Dial Corpora-| : ing number of Negro workers | | inqairing 2s to the Party and what i stande for. ~) ‘ M. Trumbu ll, _Ex-Soldier, Calls for Nation-Wide Campaign to Free THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928. Directors and Advisors at Workers’ Camp A FOOD FOR MILL © OBREGON PART STRIKE IS GALL ASKS GALLES TO _ OF RELIEF BODY STAY TWO YEARS Relief Body Calls for Papal’ Organ in Vain Contributions Effort to Shift Blame MEXICO CITY, ‘Aug. 7.—The call of the Obregon party in Vera | NEW BEDFORD. Mass.. Aug. 7. |—More food for the strikers and their wives and children!” is the Cruz under the leadership of Adal- slogan of the Workers’ Interna- herto Tejado, whose election as gov- tional Relief which 18" eonatieting crnor of Vera Cruz has just been xnnounced, to extend the term of President Calles for a period of two years was supported today by Gen- eral Amado Aguirre, governor of the southern district of Lower Cali- fornia. Manuel Puig Casauranc, minister of education in President Calles’ cabinet at a dinner of scientific so- the rélief activities for the 28,000 textile strikers of this city. With the police continuing their campaign, of arresing pickets and strike organizers, the need ‘of de- fending and obtaining relief for the workers becomes more necessary than ever before. Porter Comm A group of workers from the Russian branch of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism are shown in the pic- ture. They are participating in the opening of the presidential | campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party in Chicago. (Picture “LABOR TYVATITS | UST WITH A BANG ° The perspective of a month of unist Presidential Campaign in Chicago cs | Yesterday the Workers’ Interna- |tional Relief branch of Springfield, Number of the directors and advisers of the Workers’ Camp out. | Mass. sent # truckload of bread to side Los Angeles are shown in the picture, Scores of workers’ chil- feed the strikers., It consisted of dren, most of the Pioneers, are yearly cared for in this camp and | 1,800 pounds and was equally di- given a chance to escape the-heat and overcrowded conditions in the | Vided between the two relief stores city. (Photo by Paul C. Reiss) in the north and south end of the SECTION 1 CALLS ELECTION MEET Workers’ Clubs to Be Chicago Election Meets | po at Conference The Communist Election Cam- paign is daily gaining more momen- tum in ‘Sec n 1, dowtown, August 24 will mi thé” beginning of a much more extensive campaign in that section, especially with respect to the signature drive to put” the Workers (Communist) Party candi- dates on the ballot. On that date all the workers’ clubs, sick and death benefit organizations, frater- nal and language organizations which meet in that section will con- vene to consider ways and means of helping to put the Communist can- didates on the ballot. The conference, which will be held at 8 o’clock, at Section 1 headquar- ters, 60 St. Marks Place, is expected to be representative of many nation- alities, among them Italians, Rus- sians, Poles, Ukranians, Hungarians and Armenians. Section 1, a. work- ing class center, is the seat of the fraternal gactivities of many lan- guage organizations of workers. Two Delegates. Each of the organizations will be represented by two delegates and will be elected to function actively in cooperation with the section for the furtherance of the election cam- paign. While the bulk of the task of the members of the fraternal organizations will be soliciting sig- natures, they will also function in open air meetings, forming commit- tees for collections, sale of litera- ture and arrangements committees. All workers’ clubs, all language srganizations and fraternal clubs are requested by the Campaign Committee of Section one to elect two delegates to the enlarged elec- tion campaign conference of Aug- ust 24. The signature drive in Section one is being accelerated. “Red Sunday”, held in that section last Sunday, re- sulted in the gathering of 100 sig- natures in a comparatively short time. According to S. Milgrom, campaign director of the section, a/ prize will be offered to the mem- ber who first obtain fifty signatures in the 8th A. D. The Young Workers League, at a special campaign meeting, elected a Young Workers Campaign Com- mittee which will mobilize all the young workers of the section for ac- tive participation in the signature drive. This participation of the young workers will be especially stressed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, on which days no other League activities oceur. Headquarters for the 6th Assem- bly District have been opened by Section at 2nd Ave. and 2nd St., the headquarters of the Downtown Jewish Workers Club. Within sev- eral days the Section expects to open headquarters in the 4th A. D. in the vicinity of Rutgers Square. Calverton and Gold to Debate Attitude of Radicals on Sex A debate will be held Friday eve- ning, August 10, at the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and lth St., between Michael Gold, editor of \city. The Springfield W. I. R. has promised to furnish more bread in the near future. Fifty-one pecks of potatoes were CHIGAGO DRIVE donated to the W. cietied here today, declared that “The “world may be assured that the successor of President Calles will be selected according to law.” . . Vatican Attacks Calles. ROME, Aug. 7.—The semi-offi- cial organ of the Roman Catholic Church, in.an article on the assas- sination of President-elect Obregon, attempted to transfer the responsi- IN FULL SWING Held | CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 7. The election campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party in Chicago is in full swing. Collection of signatures has been carried on very intensive- ly, and the placing on the ballot of the Workers (Communist) Party ticket is now felt to be beyond doubt. Proceeding from the premise that a! local campaign on the basis of local candidates stimulates the national campaign, efforts are being made to nominate congressional candidates in ten out of twenty-seven congression- al districts in Illinois. Hold Open-Air Meets The open-air street meetings cam- paign is also in full swing. One 100 percent American police captain of the Sheffield Ave. police station has sworn not to permit the Work- | ers (Communist) Party to hold any |street meetings within his domain. But the Party has resolved to hold street meetings there, “police cap- | tain or no police captain.” This war has resulted up to now in a number of casualties on the party’s side. But although frequent arrests have been | made, there have not yet been any | | serious after-effects. | Arrest Workers The town moguls of Waukegan have decided not to permit the Par- | | ty to carry on election campaign ac- tivities in the streets. There have} been a number of arrests here with cases still pending in court. But the | Party: is determined to carry through its campaign. For the first time very intensive work is carried on in those sections of. the city primarily populated by Italian speaking workers. Serio is holding enthusiastic meetings every night, soliciting readers for the Party press and new members. The outstanding feature of the present campaign developments are | the systematic activities for open- air meetings and also petitions, cir- culation in the Negro territories on the south side and in the industrial section, section, 2, south side, Pull- man and Hegewisch. The responsé to the campaign in these territories is most promising for the final re- sults of the campaign. CHARGE POLICE GRAFT IN CONEY Residents Say Cops are Bribed by Bath Owners | Members of the Van Sicklen Tax} Payers Association, an organization made up of people living in Coney Island away from the amusement center, at its regular Monday night meeting in Guffanti’s Inn, Ocean Parkway and Neptune Ave., passed a unanimous resolution, requesting that an investigation be made on charges that the Coney police are working hand in hand and | being paid by the owners of private | beach bath houses to force residents | _ TR. yesterday |iiity for the crime to President | Calles, who, it charges, had planned the assassination himself. In spite of the fact that Toral was seen to fire the shots that killed Obregon, the Vatican paper | |charges that someone else directly by F. Silva, of Chase Road. He told members of the relief committee that more pgtatoes ‘would be forth- coming shortly. Magaroni to the extent of 500 junds was contributed yesterday not only the leading struggles of the American working class but of WINDOW CLEANER \the high ligh\s of s in other | countries is more and more | \clearly in eachnumber of “Labor | 1 i the | Unity,” the offjcial organ of | |Trade Union Educational League, | the militant magazine of the pro-| | gressives and the left wing in the, 16 Shops Fight Wage labor movement. : Cut, Long Hours Last Number Always Best The last August number of this| (Special to The DAILY WORKER) publication is the best yet. This) NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 7.—Win- statement has been made on several | dow cleaners here havé gone out on previous occasions by the reviewer | strik ‘i s, for the Daly Workercand ia eee eee ee an cases it has been true! increase in hours. Today is the ‘sec- by the Tagus Importing and Ex- porting Co. of this city. In addition, | a committee of strikers went fish- > ing yesterday and brought in a quantity of scallops. With the needs of the relief com- mittee increasing daily as more strikers apply for assistance, a! critical situation is developing. To enable the workers to continue on the picket line, food is necessary. Wire or mail funds at once to the Workers’ International Relief, 49 William St., New Bedford, Mass. ls of Working Class Women yes- WORKERS GROUPS influenced by Calles had done the shooting. | COUNCILS DRIVE FOR CHINESE AID Appeal to Women a Help on Tag Days An appeal was issued from the | headquarters of the United Coun-| for the aid | Unions and workers which will be | |held this Saturday and Sunday. Industries From Many) The appeal, which is made for the . i purpose of securing increased funds | Sections Representéd jand help for the Chinese workers | eed \‘and peasants, oppressed both by the | _NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 7.—An in- | reactionary Nanking regime and by dieation of the state-wide labor ele- the foreign imperialist pow 7s, is| ments that attended the New Jersey | made to all members of the militant Stale Convention to ratify"the can- women’s organization, and especially date: ‘ers (Communist) (to the seeretaries of the different Party, seen in the report of the | councils. Credentials Conimittee. i The list contains the names of|,,Xate Gitlow, secretary of the many labor and fraternal organiza- | Rpiiae ome oe Likcaineye cand Women, in- a statement made yes- tions throughout the stat is as sapeeaertativen from Ae ‘da | terday, described the a oe and and industry. | miserable conditions under which The following Party units were | the Chinese workers. and their represented: Paterson, Passaic, | Wives an@ children are forced to un- Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Bay.|dergo at the hands of the reaction- onne, Garfield, Jersey City, New-|aty forces. “The lot of the workers ark and Perth Amboy. is miserable enough,” she said, “but The following industries wera |the position in which the women represented: Building trades, ma-|@"d children are placed by far ex- chine, oil, chemical, copper smelt-| ceeds that of any nation in the ing, cable works, textile, silk, cloth-| World today.” She stressed the fact ing, aeroplane, railroad, Red’ Cross. |that in view of these conditions, the The folloting shops were repre.| American women ought to do all in sented: Botany Mills, Passaic, Foer-|their power to help their Chinese stam and Huffman, Garfield; Singer | comrades. Sewing Machine, Elizabeth; John- son and Johnson Red Cross, New | pate in the collection campaign are Brunswick; Durant Motor Co.,| now ready at the headquarters of Boxes for those who will ‘partici- | | Hungarian organization: Island © the “New Masses,” and V. ¥. Cal- | | Housewives C Schwartzenbeck Silk Mills, Wright Aeronautic Co., Raritan Copper Works, Undreground Cable Works, Worthington Pump and Ma- chinery Corp., New Jerséy Central Railroad, DuPont Chemical Co., Perth Amboy Hat Works. Delegates - 19 Shop delegates . wie 15 Young Workers Leagui 8 Young Pioneers P43 Fraternal Organizations: Women’s Councils . International Labor Defens Ukrainian organizations Slovak organizations Finnish organizations Russian organizations . Lithuanian organizations Jewish organizations .... bene 16 Total fraternal delegates..... 46 Number of delegates at confer- ence - 90 Members of trade unions 7 Workers 66 Clerks 2 Students 2 « 20 Standard Oil Co., Tide Water Oil the organization, 80 East 11th St.,| room 533. Members of the councils can get them on any days except Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a. m, to @ p.m. Secretaries of the dif- \ferent councils have been asked to | mobilize the women for the tag | days. ' KELL OGG PALES” Continued from Page One pate at Paris anothe® alternative is talked of here. It is that Kellogg, jas the originator of the compact, |could invite the Soviet Union to |send its representative to Washing- ‘ton. But this procedure is thought to be doomed to failure by many observers here. In the first place, they point out, | “i Hitherto unpublished _ material | 0" day of the strike, from the,mining fields appears with Fifty window cleaners of 16 shops an abundance of fine ilustrations are on strike. Window cleaners which now feature this paper. Not have been arbitrating with the only accounts of the trade union |pbosses since June 7, when their struggle in the coal fields, but an) | é % exdélidnt survey Of the future of agreement with them expired. Four coal in all its phases mark the issue, | Shops of window cleaners. settldd Host of Features. |with their bosses. The window The rising tempo of the textile|cleaners on strike are members of struggle is reflected with unusual | their local union, No. 22, meeting Vigor, Political news, women and at the Ukrainian Labor Hall, 57 the elections, a cartoon by Fr | Beacon St Ellis on a republican campaign} alee chairman riding the strikebreaking,| Besides trying to effect a wage G. 0. P. elephant, an article, on the | cut, the bosses intended to make Australian trade unions, an account| the window cleaners work a whole of crisis in the British mining in-| day Saturday instead of a half day, dustry craft unionism in the Ameri-| a they had been working under the can food’ industry— international agreement which expired on June peptone PATE teh Ye, 7." ‘The window cleaners, up to the inbath’ the abhnG ue of 11 | settle with the bosses, worked eight GHIA ie ee ‘ard oF excelience | hours per day, a half day Saturday There is only one answer to this | 4 Teceived $45 per_week wages. ~AND AL SHIITH IN FUNNY ACT Church Is Chosen for Vaudeville Stunt ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 7.—Gov- lernor Smith, the Tammany candi- | date for president, today challenged Rev. “Dr? John Roach Straton, “fundamentalist” minister, to a de- bate in Cavalry Church, New York, jin reply to the statements of Stra- | ton that Smith is “the deadliest foe |in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom.” “In the spirit of American fair | play,” Governor Smith, in a letter |to “Dr.” Straton, asked for the op- portunity to debate with the “fun- | damentalist” in his church. . It is not known whether the pub- lie will be able to enjoy this ex- change of wits, for at Straton’s office in New York today it was | Stated that he has “gone to the |lakes” and will not be back until |the end of August. | Opinion is divided as to whether | the charge is based on the corrup- . | tion and gambling under the Tam- | many regime, or the fact that Smith | happens to be a catholic while Stra- | ton is a protestant “fundamental- ist.” BANKS REPORT RECORD CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UP).— Total resources of national banks in the Continental United States, | Alaska and Hawaii on June 30, | were $28,508,239,000, the largest in | the history of the national banking system, exceeding by approximately $350,000,000 the resources of the banks on December 31, 1927, Comp- troller of Currency MeIntosh an- nounced today. Figures for the current call date of June 30 were reported by 7,691 | national banks and exceeded also by $934,552,000 returns of 7,734 banks reporting as of February 28, 1923, date of the previous call for condi- tion. difficult question and every worker | must have it answered for himself | —at a price so low that even a wage | | slave can afford 20 cents. | —_ee ‘Report Fascist Crew of 31 on Submarine | are Found to Be Dead | mainder of a flotilla of submarines, the F-14 had started to attack a) squadron of destroyers off Brioni| |Island in the Adriatic. It rammed {one of the destroyers, and sank) while its radio operator was flash- ing out the “S. 0. S.” | Late today there were two mes- sages—that all communication had ceased with the F-14 because “something had snapped.” But that the submarine was only 40 feet} from the surface after having been, | raised by the crane. Recalls American Submarine. 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The DAILY WORK- ER will carry up-to-the-min- ute news concerning the campaign ef the Workers (Communist) Party in the various states, Daily cable news service from the World Congress of the verton, editor of the “Modern Quar- terly,” on the subject: “Do Radicals Pussyfoot on Sex?” to wear full clothes on the way tolw* co, Pp the beach and thus pay for the|moumer e privilege of bathing. } 61 Tchitcherin is reported to have said 25 that he would attend only the ‘first 10 |conference, at which he would at- members ony Former socialist party- members | Former democrats or republicans Communist International which opens soon in Moscow. Vacation Rates Calverton will attack what he re-| The resolution, read by Walter | gards as the failure of the radical Cleary, president of the association, | movement to take a definite posi- | condemned the action of the Coney | tion on sex, while Gold will defend | Island police in serving summonses | the viewpoint of the “majority” on/on hundreds of people living in| the subject. (Coney Island daily, for going Proceeds will go to the “New | through the streets in bathing suits. | Mas ’ | The action of the police, it is} charged, is caused by the dwners of the bath houses, who, the organiza- | tion iMplies, have given graft to the | police in efforts to increase their Girl Dies of Radium Paint; Father Files SuitAgainstCompany CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Because his daughter, Ella Cruse, had died from an infection contracted while at tion of Ottawa, IIl., James Cruse has filed a suit of $33,750 against the corporation. ‘ own business. No ordinance against | walking in the streets in a bathing suit in Coney Island, has ever been | | passed, and the arrests are there- | | i | fore illegal. | A tari driver would appreciate this copy of The DAILY | WORKER, ys Celebrate Birth of Child by Donating $18.50 to the Daily PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Aug. 7. At a camp fire in celebration of a baby born to Paulino Morganstein and S. Schwartzberg, both mem- bers of the Workers (Communist) Party, held on the camping grounds near Peekskill, $18.50 was collected from the workers present and sent to the Daily Worker. The couple say that the birth of the Young Pioneer has spurred them on to increase activity in the Work- ers (Communist) Party, and promise that more fimds will soon be forth- jcoming to the Daily Worker. _tempt to make changes in the Kel- _logg pact before the question of signing it could be settled. In the second place, it is pointed out, Kel- logg would feel embarrassed to have a representative of dhe Work- ers and Peasants government in | Washington. | . | French Government Afraid. PARIS, Aug. 7.—The_ reports that the Soviet Union would be will- ence at Paris and discuss the ques- tion of outlawing war with repre- | sentatives of the powers have led | government officials ‘and news- papers here inte launching a bitter attack egainst the Soviet Union. Sane this copy of the Daily for one of the 40,000 traction workers, | ing to attend the anti-war confer- | Order a Bundle! Let The DAILY WORKER help you in your Election Campaign Work. 1 month $1 3 months $3 2 weeks 65¢ 2 months $1.60 Enclosed find $.......e0008 Order a bundle to distribute and sell at your open air i! meetings, in front of factories and at union meetings. + months subscription weeks to The DAILY WORKER. | Special price on Daily Worker bundles during election campaign. 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